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Vocation Quotes

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Dorothy Day
Joy, Vocation, Knows

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Mark Twain
Vacation, Secret, Vocation

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Humanity, Different, Vocational Education

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

Saint Basil
God, Animal, Vocation

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
May, Invocation, Awe
Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 11, 2006.

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

Therese of Lisieux
Lasts, Found, Vocation
Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, p.19, ICS Publications

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand
Art, Light, Vocation

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Saint Francis de Sales
Devotion, Vocation, United

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

Al Yankovic
Hobbies, Vocation
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

Pope Francis
Saint, Privilege, Vocation

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Hanif Kureishi
World, Advertising, Vocation
Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken
Gentleman, Strikes, Provocation
H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

C. S. Lewis
Gains, Disability, Vocation

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

Brassai
Photographer, Insight, Vocation

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Anish Kapoor
Artist, Vocation, Facade

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt
People, Genius, Vocation

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

Mother Teresa
Beautiful, Vocation

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Samuel Johnson
Needs, Enmity, Provocation
Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Scientist, Vocation, Company
"$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Duty, Vocation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

Gail Godwin
Vocation, Ifs
Gail Godwin (1999). “Evensong”

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

William Osler
Lying, Soul, Vocation
Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.55, ACP Press

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

Steven Weinberg
Atheism, Invocation, Enjoy

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, People, Vocation
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8669, e-artnow

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Larry Flynt
Hobbies, Vocation
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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